Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-10-06
STOCK BREEDING,
Eccdin1 for Gro,cih Or Ent.

Feeding for Gro,cth or Fat.
Simply feeding an animal without some
definite object in view is to waste the food
or else deprive the animal of something it
may require unless the farmer knows the
quality of the food given and the nutritiye
value OF the ingredients of which it is com-
posed. So important is knowledge of
the proper mode cf feeding that it is often
possible to produce q more perfect animal
from grade than from q thoroughbred,
and Darwin expresses the opinion that the
quality of the food influences variation in
animals, and that when improvement is Mt
tempted by judicio1s breeding the result is
largely influenced by the mode and periods
of feeding, as also by the quality and kinds
of food used.
normal condition cannot be sustained
IN an animal except by mixed diet. No
single article of food used for domestic
animals can be regarded as complete or
containing the proper proportions of the
necessary elements of growth and warmth.
Certain foods, rich in nitrogen, are re-
quired for producing flesh. These foods
are known as "hesh-formers, and are de-
rived from the gluten of grains, the
legumen of clover and from the different
forms of nitrogen in all the plants used as
food, being transformed in the body of the
animal into flesh and TO supply the natural
waste OF the muscles and cartilages, the
surplus being impaired to the products of
the animal, as casein in milk or albumen in
eggs from birds.
proper division and classification of
the foods enables the farmer to appropri-
ate the elements particularly adapted for
The accomplishment of the production of
fiesh, milk, butter, or fat, for while the Or
ganic matter abounding in nitrogen is
more suitable for flesh forming, that por-
ton free from nitrogen, known rs carbo-
hydrates, contain starch, sugar, and fatty
oils, in order 10 supply the fatty matter,
while the earthly phosphates repair and re-
new the bones.
AS the constituents OF an animals body
must come from the food, it is not best to
feed the starchy substances to young
animals exclusively when growth is de-
sired, which explains the cause of lack of
thrift when straw or coarse hay is used, as
the animal cannot eat enough of such sub
stances in order to supply itself. Nor can
we expect the best results from such grains
as corn, which contains large proportion
of starch and oil with q small amount of
fiesh-forming material, but when corn is
combined with clover hay the elements are
more evenly divided, yet even in the COM
binntlon OF the two foods time would show
that some element might be lacking, and
change of food would be necessary.
1t is more economical to feed variety,
especially to growing stock, which demand
more nitrogen and the phosphates than do
those more matured, rs the first must not
only renew waste but add to the flesh and
bone, while the adult is required only to
renew waste. An adult animal, therefore,
vc'ds the excess of nitrogenous material,
and rs consequence the manure from a
mature animal is more valuable than that
from one which has not completed growth.
An adult animal also fattens at less cost:
therefore, rs but small proportion of
nitrogen is required, the mode Of feeding
depends upon the age and the objects de-
sired TO be obtained.--PhilQdelph Rec
ord.
.toch Notes.
CREAM rises almost wholly when the
milk is cooling, says the DAIRY Farmer,
and if the milk is warmed up TO 100 degrees
the cream will nearly ali rise while the
milk is gradually cooling down to SO de-
grees.
PROF. II. L. ALvoRD believed that the
milk itself was more susceptible to the in
fluence of the air than to the breathing of
the COW. He would draw the milk in
oxygenated. When the COWS are milked in
the same air in which they stand, the milk
will be bad, but if MIXED in fresh air the
trouble will be obviaied.
The instinct of fowl leads it 10
scratch, even in feeding on heap of whole
grain. This causes it to stop eating long
enough to swallow. We give fowls too
much at time, and this causes them 10
stuff themselves SO as to iniure their crops
if fed dampened meal. A little whole grain
scattered among straw will make poultry
scratch for what they get and conduce to
their healthfulness.
VERMoNTER tells how he conquered n
kicking COW, as follows: Il tied her short
In the stable, and, lifting one of her fore
feet SO that the knee would be bent up
close, made a loop of small rope that
would slip easily over the knee and up on
her leg when so bent, holding the foot up
from the ground. After go adjusting the
loop would slip small round stick in
between the rope and the joint of her knee
50 that the loop would not come off. She
had 10 stand on three legs. for if she
moved down she would co."
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